s 66 Functions of National Mortality Assessment Committee
(1) The Committee shall have the following functions: (a) to receive and consider information relating to assessable deaths; (b) to promote the safe and efficient use of anesthetic, medical or surgical procedures, or medical technology. (2) Without prejudice to the generality of the following provisions, the Committee shall in carrying out its functions: (a) determine the extent, if any, to which— (i) anesthesia or any anesthetic procedure; (ii) medical technology or any medical procedure; or (iii) surgery or any surgical procedure, contributed to the death; (b) determine whether the assessable death under subparagraph (2)(a)(i), (ii) or (iii) might have been averted had the effects or consequences of anesthesia or anesthetic procedure, medical technology or medical procedure, or surgery or surgical procedure, had been better or more fully understood or provided for. (3) In performing its functions the Committee shall not allocate any blame to any medical or dental practitioner or to any other person.